and he has been tucked away in these meetings, going over the latest intelligence ever since. john. sandra: peter doocy if you no reaction from the white house in this moment. i imagine we will get some shortly. we are all just trying to digest what we are hearing. tomlinson over there reporting for us. just thought putin s ukraine was never a true nation. i am reading the words of france s foreign minister right now at a parliamentary hearing earlier today saying that recognizing the two breakaway regions which he is doing would be an attack without weapons. do you expect that we will get any further response from the white house as we work our way into the afternoon here, peter? we do expect a response, and part of that might be to come out informally say that the president is not going to meet with putin anymore. they were calling separately.
border. john: so let me ask you these two questions now. if he does put forces into their hands, what should the response from the west, particularly the united states be? and to your point you just made there, if he goes in with russian forces, can you see a slow creep to the west or ukraine? he has forces postured to come into ukraine. certainly from the north. belarus as we have seen. he has naval infantry and the movement of his forces. from the north, he can approach from the crimean seat and grab a greater amount of territory and establish that land bridge we have talked about. so, he has plenty of options. i think if he s going to all of this trouble, in terms of the
that vladimir putin in the speech that he is expected to give an outcome expected to declare eastern ukraine independent. want to put out there, also your response to john kirby. yeah, so i think one of the key things for the intelligence community has been to ascertain the plans and intentions. the warmongering from russia, the 200,000 troops, military exercises and belarus. the massive propaganda that we are seeing both then russia and internationally. does that mean that putin is escalating to de-escalate with terms favorable to russia? doesn t mean a full-scale invasion of ukraine? does it mean mop off a piece of eastern ukraine as we are going to see right now? those are all of the things that are on the hook. to ascertain and then advise president biden accordingly. when we are hearing or collecting intelligence about imminent threat, we have an obligation to advise our
military aid or soldiers. we will see what the response is. is putin going to go small and try to divide the nato alliance? or is he going to go big? still more questions at this point. certainly a step which has the failure of diplomacy and a potential ratcheting up of the military side of this equation, sandra. sandra: steve harrigan on the ground in kyiv. keep us posted from there. john. john: all right, we put a panel together. general jack keane is with us with dan hoffman. and also brett bruen. former white house director of global engagement. why don t we start with you since you are new to the program this afternoon? we heard what putin had to say. a lot of it was lamenting the fall of the soviet union, that they gave away too much. ukraine is a false entity created by the communists.
threat of imminent invasion. hello, everyone, i m sandra smith on this presidents day in new york. john: sandra, i m john roberts in washington. reuters is reporting that vladimir putin is expecting to announce maybe in the next 2 minutes whether or not russia will recognize parts of eastern ukraine is independent from the rest of the country. effectively annexing the land it just as he did with crimea in 2014. kremlin today pushing back against a possible meeting with the united states after president biden claimed he and putin agreed to the idea of summit talks if russia does not invade. sandra: and all of this is happening as u.s. intelligence shows that putin had given the order to the commander in the field, signing off on an invasion. john: my fox team coverage starts now. mike tobin is in poland near a border crossing with ukraine. standing by for analysis. sandra: we begin with steve live and can have for us.